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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Fast Forward Germany to give Holocaust survivors in Israel an extra $238 each because of the war
About half of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors live in Israel
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Fast Forward Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95
'Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,' Greenfield once recalled
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Fast Forward Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102
The survivor of two death marches often signed his name with 129592, the concentration camp number tattooed on his arm
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Forverts in English The Holocaust survivor in the typewriter repair shop
It wasn’t the sad smile or the stained apron that made me remember him so well. It was the tattoo on his forearm.
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Fast Forward Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91
Her grandson’s film represented the first time she spoke about her experiences after nearly eight decades
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Culture They survived harrowing Holocaust ordeals — and found extraordinary new lives in the U.S.
Six stories highlight the lasting trauma of the Shoah — and the ways survivors came to thrive, afterward
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Fast Forward ‘Club 2600’ is Brooklyn’s hottest party — for Holocaust survivors
Scenes from a monthly gathering thrown by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, which serves some 3,000 survivors in the borough.
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Fast Forward Confidential letter shows Columbia professor who called Hamas attack ‘awesome’ is under investigation
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Fast Forward 2 House members lead the charge to oust the speaker. Both have been accused of trafficking in antisemitism.
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Fast Forward Hamas releases video showing American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin talking about Passover